BLACK DICK
THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT (An Overview)
Private Eye Jackson Johnson Johnstone made a promise to help anyone he can, after an incident in jr. high involving two kids, Jackson’s head and a slightly used toilet bowl. BLACK DICK follows Jackson's attempting to make good on that promise. Sadly, when he’s not jumping to snap judgments, he’s decidedly indecisive. And even when he’s wrong, he’s the only one that’s right. Fortunately, with a bit of desire, a whole lot of luck and with Billy, his side kick, he'll get his man, because he's Jackson Johnson Johnstone: BLACK DICK FOR HIRE.
“It’s elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.”
-Sherlock Holmes
“No one in the history of time has ever used or needed math, Billy, no one”
-Jackson Johnson Johnstone
COMEDY NOIR (The World)
The series BLACK DICK resides in the world of comedic noir. Think Will Farell as Bogart in the Maltese Falcon. Much like film noir, where the protagonists are strong, tough as nails and battle weary. Jackson, our comedy noir protagonists, TELLS himself that he’s strong, tough as nails and battle weary. Through the voice-over device, we get a VIP pass to the inner thinking of Jackson, whether we want it or not.
The cases noir, only with a slight comedic twist. Instead of a protagonist caught in the web of the nefarious seductive wife, JACKSON would get entangled with a cougar, which just so happens to be his sidekick’s hot mom.
And the final defining noir tapestry: The City of Oakland. Usually dark and gloomy, ripe with crime, it’s a city with plenty of crime for Jackson to sink his teeth into.
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.”
-Philip Marlowe
“I needed to get my rent money otherwise Nanna was gonna kick me out.”
-Jackson Johnson Johnstone
THE LINE UP (The Characters)
JACKSON JOHNSON JOHNSTONE, mid 20’s - the dick
BILLY, 15 - the side kick
NANNA JOHNSTONE 50’s - the grandma
SEASON ONE
ARC
When he’s not solving the cases he’s hired for, he’s sticking his dick skills into every nook and cranny that he can, in order to get to the truth of his mother. Maybe she didn’t abandon him at Nanna’s when he was only ten years old, just maybe.
EPISODES
Black Dick & The “C” Word
A very rich man dying of cancer wants Jackson to watch his family in order to find out whom to put in to his will. But, Jackson falls pray to charms of one of the daughters, the bitchy, manipulative on. Is she using him just to be placed into the will or could she actually be falling for Jackson?
“Maggot? Now Nanna, that’s a very ugly word. And besides you know I like the ladies.”
-Jackson Johnson Johnstone
When Black Dicks Collide
Jackson’s cousin, Nanna’s favorite grandchild, shows up in Oakland. He’s everything Jackson’s not, a war vet that voluntarily signed up for a second tour. He was a cop in DC when last they saw him, but now he’s a special agent with the FBI. He’s in Oakland for a special assignment, an assignment that puts him on the opposite side of a case that Jackson’s working. This is Jackson’s chance to finally show up his cousin, hopefully.
“Maybe my instincts were wrong, but I know Billy is getting fat.”
-Jackson Johnson Johnstone
LL Black D
Jackson is reunited with his high school crush, when she hires him to resolve a case involving her older brother, the same brother who tormented Jackson all through high school. He takes the case only to get closer to her. Can he solve the case without sounding like an idiot, and can Billy help him woo the girl of his dreams?
“Like the young poet laureate once said, her
-Jackson Johnson Johnstone (vo)
Season one builds to a climatic end that brings Jackson to a startling and hilarious realization about his mother, which of course only helps to create more unanswered questions, more cases to solve and more way to ply his Dick Tricks.
